Heritage Conservation Grants – Canada

Deadline: 6-Feb-23

The Vancouver Heritage Foundation (VHF) is seeking applications for the Heritage Conservation Grants program.

The Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s Heritage Conservation Grants program was launched in 2019 with funding from the City of Vancouver. Stepping up support for heritage places, VHF built on its past programs to increase opportunities and funding for conservation of heritage buildings and sites in the city of Vancouver.

The Heritage Conservation Grants program provides funding opportunities through two categories of heritage conservation grants: Planning Project Grants and Conservation Project Grants. The grants can support owners or stewards in the care of their historic site with financial assistance and professional guidance, helping to achieve a high standard of heritage conservation to sustain heritage places and the many benefits they offer for communities.

Funding Information

• Planning Projects            
  • Private Ownership $2,000            
  • Private Ownership with Heritage Designation $2,000       
  • Non-profit Ownership/First Nation $3,000            
  • Non-profit ownership/ First Nation, with Heritage Designation $3,000
• Conservation Projects                                  
  • Private Ownership $7,500            
  • Private Ownership with Heritage Designation $10,000     
  • Non-profit Ownership/First Nation $10,000         
  • Non-profit ownership/ First Nation, with Heritage Designation $25,000
• 5 year maximum per site                                            
  • Private Ownership $20,000          
  • Private Ownership with Heritage Designation $25,000     
  • Non-profit Ownership/First Nation $30,000         
  • Non-profit ownership/ First Nation, with Heritage Designation $70,000

Eligible Projects

• Planning Project Grants will provide heritage site owners and stewards an opportunity to work with a Heritage Consultant. Planning projects can take the form of research and/or required documentation for nominating a building, structure, or site to the City of Vancouver’s Heritage Register. They can also support the creation of long-term informed conservation reports that map out a prioritized schedule for maintenance, repairs, restoration, or rehabilitation of the site.
• Conservation Project Grants provide the next step in supporting a heritage site’s conservation for the long term and focus on the maintenance, repair, restoration and rehabilitation of a site’s exterior fabric and character-defining elements that embody its heritage values.

Eligibility Criteria

• VHF encourages all applicants to consider first applying for a Planning Project Grant or undertaking appropriate conservation planning before putting forward an application for a Conservation Project Grant.

• Private Owner
  • Individual(s)
  • Strata corporations
• Registered non-profit society or federally registered charity
  • including those with a long-term lease (minimum of 10 years) in a municipally owned building with responsibility for heritage character elements eligible for work.
  • Authorized agent of a site, with written permissions from the site owner
• First Nations

For more information, visit VHF.